"Growth for B2B is hard. It used to be that you could accelerate growth with huge customer acquisition. Ramping up your sales and marketing is not enough to sustain growth. Today, the best companies are growing through customer success. That’s why I interviewed Kia Puhm (@kiapuhm), CEO at K!A CX Consulting to talk about customer success."
http://customerthink.com/transform-your-customer-journey-and-accelerate-growth/
Contact center Key Performance Indicator (KPIs) are used by SMB and enterprise companies to make better business decisions and improve the customer experience. Also called metrics, KPIs are the measurable values that show just how effective your business is at achieving its goals.
In our last couple blogs, we touched upon the top agent KPIs and team KPIs that your contact center should be tracking. We also covered the real-time metrics that supervisors use on a daily basis to monitor the status and productivity of their agents.
This time, we’ll check out some of the most used services metrics that show how your services are doing. A service is a specific reason for customers to initiate an interaction with a contact center, or, in the case of outbound dialing, for a contact center to initiate an interaction with a customer. In the contact center space, a service typically means the type of channel that connects the customer to the business: voice, email, chat, and so on.
http://customerthink.com/boost-customer-experience-by-utilizing-service-kpi-insights/
Generic or not – almost every business uses contact and lead generation forms on their websites and mobile apps. Why? Because these types of forms are both customisable, fit-for-purpose and well…necessary. Want to start using your own stylish and effective form templates? Try one of our free generic form templates from the Survey Marketplace!
https://mopinion.com/free-easy-to-use-generic-form-templates/
In this webinar, Mopinion is joined by special guests Stephan Brandenburg & Iris Rabenberg of major retail company, De Bijenkorf (part of Selfridges Group). These two share some interesting details on how they gather and get the most out of their online customer feedback data, from collection and the application of triggering techniques, to managing/structuring the data and their key findings.
https://mopinion.com/missed-our-webinar-with-selfridges-group/
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is being thrown around just about everywhere. It has become a major corporate buzzword and hype, especially among digital marketers. Meanwhile half of us still don’t really know what it means or better yet, what it can do for our business. That’s why we’re here to tell you specifically what AI can do for you and how it can make your customer feedback more actionable.
https://mopinion.com/customer-feedback-artificial-intelligence-ai/
If you’re reading this then you’ve probably already signed up for a demo with an online feedback software company. Nice going! This is a smart first step in getting yourself acquainted with a particular software. So what can you expect from your demo? Generally speaking, a good software demonstration should provide you with the following: a deeper understanding of the software’s user experience (e.g. navigation and design), a clear explanation of all the benefits the software provides and most importantly, give you the opportunity to ask any questions you might have about the software.
https://mopinion.com/key-questions-to-ask-in-an-online-feedback-software-demo/
In today's highly commoditised age where there is often little differentiation when it comes to competitive products and offerings, the biggest factor that prompts customers to patronise one brand over the other is often customer engagement. There are several studies that show the impact of customer experience on both customer acquisition and retention.
A study conducted by Bain & Company, in association with professors from the Harvard Business School, found just a 5% increase in customer retention rates increased profit by 25% to 95%. Therefore, customer experience is an important influencer of an organisation's profitability. Organisations are already starting to realize this. A recent Frost & Sullivan study found that about 80% of organisations in Asia-Pacific recognised customer lifetime value as the most significant business benefit delivered by customer experience.
https://www.itweb.co.za/content/Pero3MZgRyEqQb6m/
You may be like many executives who’ve had more than a few sleepless nights worrying about your customers. Particularly the customers with problems (and on average that’s 3 out of 4 of your customers) — the ones who light up the phones and fill your inbox with concerns, complaints, and helpful suggestions. Surely if you don’t act and fix their issues, they’ll take their business elsewhere, right?
It’s a common hypothesis that you should prioritize your initiatives around those known problems or the ‘squeaky wheel’ issues. The ‘known issues’ are causing friction in your customers’ experience and should be addressed, however, they may not deserve the resources or priority that you think.
http://customerthink.com/the-customer-experience-risk-its-what-you-dont-know-that-should-keep-you-up-at-night/
As autumn moves into full swing, retailers work to finalize their preparations ahead of the holiday shopping surge. Each year, the fourth quarter plays a significant role in ensuring retailers remain profitable, but this season holds even more weight, as some experts predict it to be the most successful holiday season since the “retail apocalypse” began.
The road to a profitable season is paved by those who do right by their customers; by those who provide a positive, personalized and multi-channel experience that leaves their customers wanting more.
https://www.retailtouchpoints.com/features/executive-viewpoints/how-cx-will-make-this-holiday-less-apocalypse-and-more-revival/
Like the running of the bulls in Pamplona — an apt simile? — it’s become a yearly tradition for me to release the marketing technology landscape at the MarTech conference in the spring. So here at our event in San Jose today, I’m pleased to unveil the 2018 edition of one of the most loved-and-hated slides in marketing:
https://chiefmartec.com/2018/04/marketing-technology-landscape-supergraphic-2018/